How to Use census in a Sentence

census

noun

• According to the latest census, the racial makeup of the town has changed dramatically in the last 50 years.
• The census takes place in the early hours of the morning.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• But the current fight stems from lawsuits filed to oppose the map drawn after the 2020 census.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 16 July 2023
• The census is based on data from the Wealth-X database, the world’s largest collection of research on the wealthy.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• In such cases, often the first time a name is listed in public records is the census of 1870.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2023
• The 1920 census marked the first time that more people in the United States lived in urban areas than rural ones.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• Other research groups working on the brain cell census backed this up.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Last year the median new-home size fell to its lowest point in more than a decade, census data shows.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Further, state data show the number has dropped more since the census data was recorded.
  — Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2024
• This month’s class will focus on the on the U.S. census as a source for ancestor discoveries.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Last year, on average, 26 more people moved away per day from Hawaii than moved in, according to the census.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• At present, the Black population makes up 5.4% of Arizona’s census.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• For the first time, Catholics outnumbered Protestants in Northern Ireland in last year's census.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• Nearly half the city’s residents are nonwhite, according to the census, and the median age is 32.
  — Adrienne Broaddus, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• In 2000 the Catalan government asked whether Senar and his team could undertake a formal census.
  — Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• The share of Georgia residents who identify as white and non-Hispanic fell in the most recent census to 50.1%, the lowest on record.
  — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2023
• This was the first census in U.S. history to include Black people by name alongside the rest of the country’s population.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
• More than half the Village of Sleepy Hollow is of Hispanic origin, according to the most recent census.
  — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• The number of people employed by state prisons fell in 2022 to its lowest point in more than two decades, according to U.S. census data.
  — Justin Mayo Taylor Glascock, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Per census data, about a quarter of the county’s population are renters.
  — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024
• The census aims not only to come up with a number, but also understand the demographic makeup of the unhoused, as well as the factors that led them to this point.
  — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• According to a decade-old census, Hindi was not the majority language, even though it was spoken by 44% of the people.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• But even at a rate of 1 million new arrivals a year, U.S. population growth would flatline in about 40 years and then slowly begin to decline, the census says.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Zoom in or search for a county to see vulnerability by census tract.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 July 2023
• The population of Maryland and the United States is skewing older, new 2020 census data shows.
  — Annie Jennemann, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2023
• Worth a Thousand Words Results like this one can help fill in lingering gaps in the galactic planetary census.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2023
• The last census put Bosnia’s total population at 3.5 million, down from 4.4 million in the previous count, a year before war broke out.
  — Andrew Higgins Vladimir Zivojinovic, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• More information about the 2022 census data can be found on the United States Census Bureau website at census.gov.
  — The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• But an analysis of census data by The Washington Post found less than 10 percent of 85-year-olds live in such a facility.
  — Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• Illinois's recount comes as several cities in the state have requested a special second census count in 2024.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024